Posted on 11/16/2012 2:06:14 PM PST by NYer
Ping!
Prayerss up for a complete recovery.
/johnny
I am surprised they didn’t go to court and demand her organs anyway.
yep.
A few days ago someone posted that 1/5th of those said to be “vegetables” recover... wow... how many never had the chance to recover?
That must have been quite a sight to see.
Here’s another, purportedly “brain dead”, comatose victim, with a much better outcome.
I guess it would depend on your definition of “recover.”
I heard Jimmy Akin on Catholic Answers say that that it’s looking like “brain death” was invented to make organ harvesting possible.
I guess it would depend on your definition of “recover.”
It is like survival rates with esoteric cancers. I have watched more than one mother’s child become a science experiment for the research center. Survival just means breathing.
They reserve it for their victims.
I think the standard of “brain death” is deeply flawed, because it is known that when injured, the body secretes a large amount of a normally occurring chemical called GABA, that is *supposed* to shut down the injured part of the brain so that it can heal.
But when some people get a big release of GABA, it sensitizes all of their brain to the chemical, so it will stay shut down even with normal levels, and if there is no damage.
A sensitivity to GABA is now known to be responsible for many cases of “persistent coma”.
But far too little is known about brain trauma and awareness to assume that just because a brain isn’t currently working like a normal brain, it is “dead”.
I may just be “sleeping”.
Someone should book her to speak to out lame GOP. Maybe they’d decide to wthu.
Good opportunity to remind people that they cannot harvest organs from the dead, only from the living. Which is why they invented the nebulous notion of “brain death”, so they could convince families to let them butcher their still-living loved ones and parcel out their organs for profit.
Well, that’s why they want to pull the plug so fast. The doctors really don’t want to give them a chance to recover, it would be bad for business.
Interesting how when some are removed from life support, they recover. Perhaps the body healed itself but was letting the machines continue to do the work. It may be that when taken off the machines, the body is forced to work on it’s own. Could also be that the patients hear and process the discussion of killing them which makes them fight to come back.
I remember a theory about the temperature of the ar they breathe from life support machines might be keeping them in a coma longer.
bump
"Ohhhhh.. what are you doing? Were you pulling the plug on me!"
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